Challenges

Challenges are there everywhere, for every one, human, animal, bird or insect. In every walk of life. On the land, in the water or from the space, One has to be always prepared to accept challenges. That doesn’t mean, you should screw up your mustache, stand at the front gate, with a big knife to … Read more

Love by love

Paying back love by love ————- “Your face is familiar. Aren’t you Kuppuswamy’s daughter? We call him Kuppu” “No, uncle. I’m Appuswamy’s wife, I call him Up” “My son’s name too is that. But, we don’t call him Up” “He is never up from bed before noon, right?” “Right. How do you know?” “I told … Read more

Ammalu is always right

”just now, I took a vow not to tell a single lie to you, Ammalu” “Why to me alone. You should never lie to anyone in the world”  “But you are my world, Ammalu!” “fut goes your vow within 40 seconds” ——————————————————————————————————- I’m getting a feeling that I’m not getting due respect in this house, … Read more

Kuppuswamy, my friend

NRI boys do remove their shirts. Many trains halted and passed through Olavakkode Junction, day and night, more during night. Seated on the veranda of my house, by the station road, I used to watch the movement of people. From the Kalpathy villages, they used to come to receive or see off their relatives. Some … Read more

MAmiyar Murukku

MAmiyar murukku. ‘Mappillai murukku’ – some of you would have heard. I heard it for the first time, when I stayed for a couple of days, soon after my wedding in my wife’s house at Thiruvananthapuram. For evening snack, I was served, after asking me to be seated facing the auspicious East, Avil aka beaten … Read more

Gone is gone

Gone is gone! “Are you a diabetic?” “Yes” “BP ?” “High” “Leg pain?” “There are multiple plains. Not leg alone” “Where is your wife?” “Escaped” “Means?” “She left me” “Abandoned you?” “A new word in the dictionary?” “What I wanted to know was whether she went alone or with some one” “How does it matter, … Read more